A career orientation test for students is a support tool that helps young people identify their standout qualities. It makes searching for and selecting a career path easier, more suitable, and more accurate.
A career orientation test for students helps them identify their strengths and potential qualities. It provides a basis for making an appropriate career choice.
With the support of the test, we can feel more confident when choosing a career path and avoid confusion or making the wrong choice because we do not know our strengths. Moreover, taking the test helps identify areas for skill adjustment at an early stage, enabling people to focus on developing the skills relevant to their desired career more effectively and quickly.
What tests are available on the market?
Popular tests currently include:
MBTI: a tool for classifying people through 50 questions covering 16 personality groups. Benefit: identifies which group a person belongs to in order to choose the most suitable career. For people aged 14 and above.
DISC: is a tool for identifying personality by observing the other person’s behavior. Benefits: determining which of four groups they belong to—leadership-oriented, humorous, introspective, or extroverted. It is used when we first meet and communicate with them through a multiple-choice questionnaire.
Uchida-Kraepelin: a tool for measuring personality and work habits based on the speed of answering successive addition problems on a Japanese number sheet. Benefit: measures personality, speed, and current work habits. Used when preparing to look for a job.
Trait-Map: a German self-discovery tool used to identify qualities that a person has expressed over time. Benefit: supports deeper self-discovery and helps people understand which careers may suit them in the future. Used when submitting a job application.
Which tests do employers prefer to use?
Depending on the company’s needs and development direction, businesses choose suitable tools to support human resource training and development—optimizing costs while maintaining effective assessment and training.
1. Uchida-Kraepelin (UK test) from Japan.
This is a highly effective tool for recruitment and for finding suitable personnel in Japan and other countries, including Vietnam. It is currently distributed by VienQuest Institute.
Its advantages include being applicable to many people at the same time and saving costs. UK test provides a high level of screening and measures performance, capabilities, personality tendencies, and working style. Based on these factors, businesses gain a clear understanding of how potential employees work and can easily determine whether they are suited to the nature of the job or how they should be trained if training is needed.
2. Trait-map OD-TOOLs – Personality and occupational capabilities from Germany.
Unlike the UK test, Trait-map it focuses on measuring personality in the workplace and in social activities, as well as managers’ and leaders’ most fundamental skills, their roles within groups, and their tendencies when handling conflict or stressful situations. It also measures the risk of burnout among employees in each project, work shift, and so on…
Based on these analytical reports, businesses can optimally select potential employees for each position within their organization.
3. Motivation Questionnaire (MQ) – A motivation questionnaire from Germany.
The MQ test assessment is based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, one of the fundamental frameworks for understanding human needs. These needs are analyzed in detail into 16 different basic needs. Measurement is based on participants’ perceptions of their personal satisfaction compared with their expectations. What motivates a person at work and in life? This may include intrinsic motivation—mission, growth, excellence, learning, and so on—or extrinsic motivation—material benefits, achievement, job security, recognition, and more.
Each tool generally has its own characteristics for specific functions or positions within a company. Through the results of the above tools, businesses can measure their workforce as quickly as possible in order to reduce excess resources in each current position within the organization.
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